Sunday Post #19/ It's Monday. What Are You Reading?

This was a pretty good week. I didn't get a lot of reading in, but early in the week I did the HoHoHo Read-a-thon and that was fun. I read two books for that and won the Creative Writing challenge at Melissa's Mochas, Mysteries and More. If you haven't read the stories you should check out her blog, the stories themselves or the links are on her site and they're all a lot of fun. Mine is here. Thanks to Melissa for hosting that.

In other news, I still have not seen the Thor movie yet. Real life keeps interfering with a trip to the theater, but I've been seeing some reviews popping up on blogs and it sounds fun. Anybody seen it, and if so what are your thoughts?

Here's the Divergent trailer too, which everyone has probably already seen. This also looks good, although I have not read the books so what do I know? Definetly curious though...

Which classic novel did you quit reading? There are a lot of interesting choices here, the comments are wide ranging. This is heavily focused on science fiction/ fantasy but there are some classics represented as well. Check it out.

Inside the house of Beorn, from the new Hobbit movie. Includes a behind-the-scenes video that is kind of interesting, for all you Hobbit people out there.

27 comments:

Oh, I hope you enjoy Love Saves the Day! I really loved it (I even gave it 5 stars, and I don't do that very often.)

My niece really enjoyed the Thor movie, though agrees with others who think Loki steals the show. I'll probably wait for Netflix; I save movie-going for things I really can't wait to see -- like The Hobbit. Speaking of which, thanks for the house of Beorn link!

Wow, you have had a busy and fun week! No, I have not seen Thor yet, but I hope to sometime. I would like to read Love Saves the Day and also Blythewood is already on my wishlist. Good choices. I am eagerly awaiting The Hobbit II, seeing a LOTR film every December one releases is a family tradition here :)

I want to see The Book Thief, Thor and Catching Fire but in reality I will be seeing Frozen! I hope you are enjoying Blythewood, I thought that was a good solid read. Hmm classic books I gave up on... Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre couldn't do them but was really young, I really need to try again.

Interesting, I hear so much about the books I sometimes forget not EVERYONE liked them. I've never read them so I'm kinda a blank slate- the books never jumped out at me but the movie looks interesting.

I'm another one who hasn't read Divergent - crazy, huh? I own it, too. I guess I just don't go ga-ga over dystopian novels anymore. Hunger Games was enough for me (but I LOVED that series). Speaking of which... they recast the cat? I hadn't even noticed it was different. Wow... the things people will complain about.

I'm going to find Blythewood at the library b/c I've been wanting to read that one but I just haven't had time to. I've seen some decent reviews so far - hope you're liking it :)

I still haven't seen the first Thor movie so #2 hasn't really grabbed me. I'm not completely irredeemable though as I have my eye on Lego Marvel Super Heroes and I'll happily button mash Thor through that.

No Divergent for me. Not interested in reading or seeing. We haven't seen Thor yet. We're hoping for a Thanksgiving weekend matineé if funds hold out. I've been hearing good things, but we'd go see it anyway. Cuz it's Thor. Duh! LOL

Classic I gave up on would be Phantom of the Opera. Sci-fi one would be Dune. Though, to be fair, my brother gave me Dune when I was like 10, so maybe I should give a it a go now that I'm 45. Right? ;)

Great post! I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Blythewood. :) As for Thor...I so want to go see this movie, but will probably have to wait until it releases on DVD since I've got way too much going on at the moment to sneak off to the theater! lol And I haven't read any of the Divergent books either, so I guess I'll be holding off on watching that as well until I get a chance to read the books.

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